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CVE-2005-3321
published 2005-10-27

CVE-2005-3321: chkstat in SuSE Linux 9.0 through 10.0 allows local users to modify permissions of files by creating a hardlink to a file from a world-writable directory…

PriorityP49medium4.6CVSS 2.0
AVLACLAuNCPIPAP
EPSS
0.40%
32.2th percentile
chkstat in SuSE Linux 9.0 through 10.0 allows local users to modify permissions of files by creating a hardlink to a file from a world-writable directory, which can cause the link count to drop to 1 when the file is deleted or replaced, which is then modified by chkstat to use weaker permissions.

Affected

5 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
novellsuse_linux
susesuse_linux
susesuse_linux
susesuse_linux
susesuse_linux
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